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• 07/27/2012 -- Politics crimping export outlets for Alberta heavy oil
  Finding a politically accommodating route to market for Alberta bitumen is becoming even more difficult than producing the abundant stuff.
• 08/06/2010 -- New York raises taxes but spurns big revenue hope
  When clothing expenses rise later this year, New Yorkers can console themselves by quaffing unthreatened water.
• 06/25/2010 -- Offshore spill not a reason to oppose an onshore pipeline
  Follow the logic: A blowout in deep water causes a massive oil spill that soils beaches, disables wildlife, and disrupts fishing and tourism; therefore, a pipeline that would carry oil produced onshore over land shouldn’t be built. Isn’t something missing here?
• 01/08/2010 -- Authors say crisis forces remain at work on oil price
  If you think stability has returned to the oil market, two Rice University researchers have a message that should slosh your coffee: The crisis isn’t over.
• 01/15/2010 -- Dramatic education sometimes the best antidote for fear
  Because antidevelopment environmentalists know how to manipulate fear, advocates of oil and gas development need to know how to combat it.
• 01/22/2010 -- US energy market wouldn’t notice loss of biodiesel
  Live by the subsidy, die by the subsidy. Because a generous tax credit for biodiesel expired at the end of 2009, makers of the fuel fear commercial demise is near.
• 01/29/2010 -- Obama’s speech raises tax alarm for oil industry
  For the oil and gas industry, President Barack Obama’s state of the union speech on Jan. 27 contained one carrot and two heavy sticks.
• 02/05/2010 -- DOE's stimulus dollars are not stimulating much
  A Feb. 4 congressional question to US Energy Sec. Steven Chu shows why state-sponsored energy works poorly as economic stimulus.
• 02/12/2010 -- Oil demand lift from icy weather not a sure thing
  Shouldn’t a cold Northern Hemisphere winter give oil demand, struggling to recover from recessionary doldrums, a huge lift? Maybe not.
• 02/26/2010 -- Frac fluid fears show capacity for inconsistency
  Controversy over hydraulic fracturing fluids and their possible effect on drinking water demonstrates the boundless human capacity for inconsistency.